"Black, black," sang she,
"Black, black my weeds shall be,
My love has widowed me!
Black, black!" sang she.
Daft Jean,
The waesome wean,
She cam' by the cottage, she cam' by the ha',
The laird's ha o Wutherstanelaw,
The cottar's cot by the birken shaw;
Nae mair she creepit,